Review: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins.

Main Character: Anna Oliphant
Love Interest: Etienne St. Claire
Series: S.O.A.P. Books? (I don’t know what the series is called)
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Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris—until she meets Étienne St. Claire: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he’s taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home. As winter melts into spring, will a year of romantic near-misses end with the French kiss Anna—and readers—have long awaited?

I was kind of scared to read this book because it was getting such good reviews everywhere I turned in the YA community that I was scared my expectations for this book would be too high and that the book wouldn’t live up to my impossible expectations but what do you know…I loved the hell out of this book anyway.

This book follows Anna and she makes her way to Paris, France for her senior year at a boarding school. Her Dad is like a James Patterson, who writes those cheesy epic romantic stories that never have a happy ending and he’s got all this money but is still cheap as all hell when it comes to spending it on his kids. When he gets it into his brain that it would be good for Anna to move away to Paris and finish up her high school years over there, Anna is more than a little pissed off. She doesn’t want to go to Paris. She’s got her best friend and her family here in Atlanta and an almost relationship with the guy she’s been lusting after for the longest time, Toph.

The minute Anna’s parents leave her all alone in Paris, she kind of panics and her next door neighbor comes to her rescue and the next day, introductions are made and Anna has herself a new group of friends to ride out this school year with and the hottie from the night before is a part of that group.

Watching Anna as she let these new people into her life and watching them form their own little family at school made for such a great, entertaining read. I adored seeing how close Anna and St. Claire were getting and I adored when St. Claire stopped being St. Claire but became Etienne, instead.

*sigh*

I’m a sucker for a good romance and there was a great romance in this one. I was able to forgive Etienne for stringing Anna along because he was just so good. I loved him. There wasn’t a thing about him that I found lacking, he was that perfect…and when I say he’s perfect, I mean he’s not perfect and I accept him flaws and all. =) Etienne made this story come alive for me, the way that he took Anna and showed her Paris, the way that he was there for Anna whenever she needed anything and the way that he made it clear through his actions that she was a big part of his life.

Watching as their romance blossomed into the love that we witness at the end of the book had me sighing all over the place. I walked away from this book with a great big smile on my face and I can’t recommend this book enough. At first, I was going to give this book a B but like Mollie, I can’t find anything wrong with this book because even what was wrong with this book, I couldn’t find fault with because it made the story pop even more.

I adored this book and I adored the characters, Perkins did a fantastic job of making every character introduced in this story shine in their own little way without stealing Anna and Etienne’s (he’ll always be Etienne to me) thunder. This book was a whole lot of fun and even though I was scared to read it with all of the hype that surrounded it, I’m glad that I went ahead and read it anyway because again, I adored it!

..and that’s your scoop!

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For all the Mom’s out there, I’d give this book a rating of:

There is some inappropriate language but not much.

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